1. Run the TAPoR Googlizer to collect some web pages related to your topic. In this case we are interested in learning about Coffee and we can leave the other parameters as default.

1. Run TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool using Coffee as the concordance term on the Databench result.

1. Run the TAPoR Googlizer to collect some web pages related to your topic. In this case we are interested in learning about Coffee and we can leave the other parameters as default.

Reviews
Articles
Reference
Highest Rated
Advanced Search
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The best Kona we cupped this year, Bay View Farms' medium 
roast peaberry offers a roundly delicate aroma, chocolate 
and caramel notes, and a clean, sweet finish (92 points).
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and widely read coffee publications. We are widely cited
 as a leading coffee authority, including in a recent

Note that the list refers to coffee itself, the tools used to both harvest and consume coffee and as exploration continues, you may want to re-do Googlizer for a more precise search term.

1. To continue the exploration of our aggregated text, we may wish to further focus our exploration of a particular type of coffee bean, or to return to the Googlizer and re-search for coffee processing equipment. The result can be explored on its own in a similar fashion as above or can be added to the above aggregation.
2. This exercise has demonstrated two ways in which you can extract concepts from aggregated text collected on a particular topic.

Explore Dynamically Aggregated Text

1. Recipe to Explore Dynamically Aggregated Text

It applies a recipe to real textual example which is freely available on the internet so you can do the steps yourself and see the results.

1. Run the TAPoR Googlizer collect some web pages related to your topic. In this case we input the search term Coffee and leave the other parameters as default.

Reviews 
 Articles 
 Reference 
  
 Highest Rated 
 Advanced Search 
  
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 HTML
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• -> Advanced Search 
Find the exact reviews you want quickly and easily with our new advanced search feature.
• -> Aloha 
The best Kona we cupped this year, Bay View Farms' medium roast peaberry offers a roundly delicate aroma, chocolate and caramel notes, and a clean, sweet finish (92 points).

• -> Single-Cup Correction 
Our recent review of single-serve coffees and systems provoked some sharp reactions from readers as well as one well-taken correction.
• -> Reference Section 
Visit our extensive reference section for more information about Colombian coffee.
• -> Nominations 
Nominate your favorite coffee for future possible inclusion in future cuppings.
• -> Contact Us 
Coffee Review wants to hear from you.
The world's largest coffee organization. 
Interested in getting into the coffee business? 
National Geographic's The 10 Best of Everything
CoffeeReview.com launched in 1997, introducing the first-ever 100-point ratings to the specialty coffee industry. 
Led by author Kenneth Davids , Coffee Review has become one of the world's most respected 
and widely read coffee publications. We are widely cited as a leading coffee authority, including in a recent 

1. This should return a list similar to:
   

1. Note that the list refers to coffee itself, the tools used to both harvest and consume coffee and as exploration continues, you may want to re-do Googlizer for a more precise search term.

1. Login into TAPoR.
2. Run the [[ http://portal.tapor.ca/TaporMain/portal/launchTool?toolName=Googlizer&showDataBench=false][TAPoR Googlizer]] collect some web pages related to your topic. In this case we will input Coffee as a search term and leave the other parameters as default.

1. Run TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool^? using Coffee as the concordance term on the Databench result.

1. Using the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool^? will list places in the text that a particular word appears.
   

1. Run TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool using Coffee as the concordance term on the Databench result.

1. Examining the word list does not show an immediate pattern amongst the most common words in the text.
   

   The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.

   
   
   Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.

1. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:
   
   

   the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

1. Login into TAPoR >>discussion;
2. Run the TAPoR Googlizer collect some web pages related to your topic. In this case we will input Coffee as a search term and leave the other parameters as default.
3. When the search results are returned, choose to save them to the Databench with a title such as “Coffee Results”;
4. Run TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool using Coffee as the concordance term on the Databench result. 1 This returns a list such as:
   
   

Discussion

This recipe uses the Databench functionality of the TAPoR so it is important that you actually be logged in to TAPoR. To obtain a guest account, go here.

Recipe 3 Exercise

This exercise uses Recipe 3 and the Googlizer Tool to generate Dynamically Aggregated Text and then uses tools such as a frequency list and concordance to explore the results. . It applies a recipe to real textual examples freely available on the internet so you can do the steps yourself and see the results.

Exercise Steps

1. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool to generate a word list sorted by frequency.
   
   

   Word		Count
   The	------	3591
   Of	------	2057
   And	------	1360
   To	------	1234
   A	------	850
   Was	------	848
   In	------	758
   Had	------	686
   Been	------	265
   Be	------	255
   Not	------	246
   At	------	240
   On	------	213
   From	------	212
   Who	------	201
   They	------	187
   Their	------	174
   All	------	153
   King	------	139

   
   
2. Examining the word list does not show an immediate pattern amongst the most common words in the text. The most frequent words were common function words such as 'The', 'A', etc. They don't appear to be particularly unique, so we decide to eliminate common function words.
   
3. Run the TAPoR List Words Tool again, applying a list of words to exclude from the list. One useful stop list, the Glasgow stop words list, is available here.
   
   

   Word		Count
   King	------	139
   Great	------	115
   Parliament	------	92
   England	------	86
   House	------	83
   Men	------	81
   Time	------	75
   Government	------	74
   Charles	------	73
   Power	------	68
   Party	------	66
   Public	------	59
   Years	------	57
   France	------	56
   Long	------	56
   English	------	55
   Court	------	54
   Commons	------	53
   State	------	52
   Church	------	51
   New	------	46
   Man	------	46
   Country	------	46

   
   

   The list of frequent words is now more intriguing. Words such as : King, Great, Parliament, England, House, Men, Time, Government, Charles, Power, Party, Public Years, Just immediately stand out.

   
   
   Let's see how these words are used within the context of the text.
4. Using the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool will list places in the text that a particular word appears.
   
5. This search returns a list of these key words and the five words on either side of the target word. Several themes and paths for further exploration emerge from this process:
   
   

   the word Time occurs frequently. Does this suggests a focus on time passing or the importance of time to the story being related? Note the frequent use use of the words ‘long’, ‘years’, ‘old’, ‘good’, ‘passed’, ‘life’, ‘day’, ‘make’, ‘passed’, ‘did’, ‘soon’ in relation to the word time.

   
   

   Is there a theme of Power in this text? – Note the focus on titles, ‘King’, ‘Parliament’, ‘Government’, ‘Charles, ‘Power’, ‘State’, ‘Man’, ‘Nation, ‘General’, ‘Crown, ‘Duke’, ‘Royal’, ‘Head’, ‘Monarchy’, ‘Chief’, ‘High’, ‘Lord’, ‘Prince’.

   
   
   
6. How is power referred to in the text? Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore the use of the word power.
   
   

   Power is treated not a single entity, but is most often qualified: ‘spiritual power', 'temporal power', 'coercive power', 'arbitrary power', 'uneasy power', 'power of the sword', 'political power'.

   
   
   
7. What is the author's attitude towards the common man? Use the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool and input Man as the target.
   
   

   Note that the word Men is are generally disparaged: ’worst sort of men’, ‘worthless men’, ‘unhappy men’, ‘small men’, ‘men merited clemency’, ‘ambitious men’, ‘worst set of men of the world'.

   
   
   
8. What is the author's attitude towards the monarchy? Use TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to see how often the words 'King' and 'Charles' occur together.
   
   

   Note that the title the King is commonly used, but not ‘King Charles’ or 'King James'. The proper name Charles is used frequently, but collocation of King and Charles are rare.

   
   

   Parliament_ is superior. King is ‘detested’, ‘disliked’, ‘impeached’ – moreover, never used terms ‘executed’, killed.

   
   

   The word Court is paired with a variety of disparaging terms, ‘sycophants’, ‘concealed’, ‘quarreled with’, ‘…abused’, ‘extravagance of the …’, ‘the…excited the bitter indignation’, ‘vice and folly’, ‘disliked’, ‘faithlessness of the …’, ‘seditious’

   
   

   The Commons are collocated with positive terms: ‘undoubted power’, ‘should be governed’, ‘elected’, ‘ancient and undoubted power’, ‘legally’.

   
   
   
9. Thus, using these simple tools easily identifies the themes of power, monarchy, the common man and time in Macaulay's History of England.

Next Steps/Further Information

1. List of All Recipes
2. Recipe 1 Identify Themes in a Text
3. Recipe 2 Explore Themes in a Text^?
4. Help with Particular Tools
5. Background on Text Analysis

-- ShawnDay - 26 Feb 2006